Living A Drug Free Life

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Living A Drug Free Life

• Logan Seitz, Sean Gosselin,
• Tyler Brown, Nathan Green,
• Tori Malone, and Victoria Vogel

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Objective

• SWBAT Identify possible ways to a live drug free
  life and/or receive help for drug problems.

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Warm-up

• List five activities you or a friend could do
  instead of participating in drugs.

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Warm-up Answers

• List five activities you or a friend could do
  instead of participating in drugs.
• Hobbies (photography, cooking, art, or music)
• Community activities (church group or community
  service)
• School organizations (clubs, sports, or plays)
• Sports (team or individual)

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Living a Drug-Free Life

• By deciding not to use drugs, you protect your
  health and become a model to others. Its not
  true that everyones doing it.
• Almost 62 of high school students have never
  tried marijuana, and more than 90 have never
  tried cocaine.

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Healthy Alternatives

• Choosing friends that value a drug free lifestyle
  and participating in activities that do not
  involve drugs can help you avoid drug use.
• Hobbies activities you can enjoy doing (such as
  photography cooking art or music).
• Sports physical activity through outdoor (such
  as recreation team and individual sports)

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More Healthy Alternatives

• Community activities participate in neighborhood
  events, political movement, community service
  religious activities, and local clubs.
• School Organizations get involved in service
  groups, honor societies, and advocacy groups at
  school.

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Committing to being drug-free

• If youre friends put pressure on you to use
  drugs, you may need to decide whether you want to
  continue to remain friends with someone who uses
  drugs.
• To commit to remain drug free, choose friends who
  share your attitude about drug use and avoid
  places where drugs may be available.
• Even if a person uses drugs in the past, they can
  choose not to in the future.

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School efforts

• Drug free school zone areas with-in 1,000-1,500
  feet of schools (designated by a sign)
• If a person is caught selling drugs on a
  drug-free school zone, he or she will receive
  especially severe penalties
• Penalties will often be doubled compared to what
  the same drug offense might be elsewhere
• Efforts to eliminate drug use
• Drug education classes
• Zero-tolerance policies
• Expulsion of students found using drugs
• Locker searches

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Community Efforts

• Drug watches organized community efforts by
  neighborhood residents to patrol, monitor,
  report, control drug abuse, and drug deals
• Anti- drug programs in your community can help
  protect your family and friends from drug abuse.

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Getting Help

• Drug abuse is a treatable condition.
• Rehabilitation the process of medical and
  psychological for physiological or psychological
  on a drug or alcohol
• Recovering process of learning to live without
  drugs
• Drug treatment centers offer a safe place to
  withdraw from drug abuse

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Getting Help Continued...

• Types of drug treatment centers include
• Out-patient drug-free treatment these programs
  do not usually include medications and often use
  individual or group counseling
• Short-term treatment these centers can include
  residential therapy, medication therapy, and out
  patient therapy
• Maintenance therapy intended for heroin addicts,
  this treatment usually includes medication
  therapy
• Therapeutic communities These are residences for
  drug abusers. These centers include highly
  structured programs that may last six to twelve
  months
• Support groups provide the long-term support
  that recovering users need to remain drug-free,
  in addition to family support

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Becoming drug-free

• Once someone starts using drugs, addiction can
  occur rapidly. Here are some ways to help a
  recovering addict or a person who wants to quit
• Identify sources of help in your community
• Talk to the person when he or she is sober.
  Express your affection and concern. Describe the
  persons behavior without being judgemental.
• Listen to the persons response. Be prepared for
  anger and denial.
• Offer to go with your friend or family member to
  a counselor or support group.

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Practice Saying No

• Despite your efforts, someday you may be offered
  drugs. To protect yourself from being pressured
  into taking drugs, prepare ways in which you can
  turn down drugs.
• Say no firmly Make your refusal calmly, firmly,
  and confidently.
• Buy yourself time Find a place where you can be
  alone to think about what you can do to get out
  of the situation.
• Give good reasons to not choose drugs For
  example, you could say No thanks, I dont want
  to get kicked off the football team.
• State the consequences that could result if you
  do choose drugs For example, being arrested.
• If necessary, say no again and include an
  alternate activity Come up with an activity you
  could do that doesnt involve drugs
• Walk away Sometimes a person will keep
  pressuring you, but nobody can pressure you to do
  drugs if you arent there

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Living Drug-Free

• Refusing drugs may be difficult, but choosing to
  be drug-free will make your life a lot easier.
• Teens these days are facing new challenges and
  many changes.
• Living a healthy life without getting caught in a
  web of drug abuse and addiction can help you
  accomplish your goals for the future.

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Enhancement ActivityYou can say this...

• 1. What loser told you that?
• 2. I dont care that much about fitting in.
• 3. Im cool enough already.
• 4. I definitely dont sit around and kill my
  brain cells.
• 5. Ill try it when I see smart people doing
  it.
• 6. I already feel fine.
• 7. Yeah, Im scared of ending up addicted.

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